about:
Jennifer Eadie is a writer and artist-researcher who lives & works across Kaurna, Adnyamathanha and Goolarabooloo Millibinyarri country. Her site-responsive and collaborative practice assembles text and still/moving image as a means of interrogating the censorship of body and place, in an Australian context. She is a ARC Research Fellow/PhD in the Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame and sessional lecturer in the South Australian School of Art.
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contact:
ndjeadie@gmail.com
record:
poetry / creative
Eadie, J (2025) ‘everything is happening at once’, Plumwood Mountain Journal, vol 21:1
Eadie, J (2024) ‘The Impact of Missionaries’ , Westerly Magazine, vol 69:1
Eadie J and The Kaurna Womens Art Collective (2023) ‘Footprints’, Tarnanthi exhibition installation and text Eadie, J (2022) ‘Love Letter Backwards’ in accompanying texts: UNRAVEL exhibition publication
Eadie, J et al., (2021) ‘A Collaboration with Looking Glass’ in FUMA Gallery exhibition: Looking Glass, Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce (organised by TarraWarra Museum of Art and Ikon Gallery with curator Hetti Perkins)
Eadie, J (2021) ‘Against Segregation’ in CORDITE Poetry Review, vol 101
Eadie, J (2020) 'It Turns Back Upon Itself' in CORDITE Poetry Review, vol 97
Eadie, J & Semmens, A (2020) 'LEAVE ONLY YOUR FOOTPRINTS: a dialogue exploring identity and connection to Country that is enabled through embodied movement', Critical Path Digital Interchange Festival
journal articles / book chapters
Eadie J & Muecke S (2025) ‘ Reclaiming Country: Australian Aboriginal Walking Trails as Method ‘ in Casper Bruun Jensen (ed), Southern Anthropocenes, Routledge: NY.
Muecke et al (2025) ‘Saltfish: ecologies of creative processes’ in Anna Hickey-Moody et al., (eds), New Materialist Affirmations: Creative Research Interventions in Methods and Practice, Edinburgh University Press:UK
Eadie J & Muecke S (2024) ‘Seaside Concepts: Walking and Writing the Lurujarri Trail’ in Felicity Picken & Emma Waterton (eds), Shores, Surfaces and Depths: Oceanic Cultures, Routledge: NY.
Muecke et al.,(2022) ‘Saltfish’, Sydney Review of Books
Eadie J (2021) ‘So Many Birds/One River: A fictocritical response to the Port-Yarta Puulti River, Kaurna Country’, TEXT Journal
Muecke, S & Eadie, J (2020) 'Ways of Life: Knowledge Transfer and Aboriginal Heritage Trails' Educational Philosophy and Theory, 53:8
Eadie J (2014) ‘The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age’ Modern Fiction Studies 60:1
books
2025 -
2022 -
exhibitions & residencies
2024 – memory line, wash house gallery, Sauerbier House
2023/24 – witness/tree project, Nexus Arts
2024 – NEOTERICA(text) - Adelaide Festival
2023 – Nexus Studio Residency w/ Adrianne Semmens
2023 - Footprints w/ The Kaurna Womens Art Collective & Dave Laslett - Tarnanthi Festival
2023 - Sauerbier House Cultural Exchange Residency
2023 - LARTELARE artist talk & exhibition w/ The Kaurna Womens Arts Collective, Vitalstatistix
2023 - LARTELARE residency w/ The Kaurna Womens Arts Collective, Vitalstatistix
2022 - Deep Dive Artist Residency, POP Gallery Port Adelaide
2022 – Following the River, SALA residency and exhibition
2022 - BREW Writer in Residence, Pandanus, NT 2022 – UNRAVEL exhibition & performance w/ Adrianne Semmens, The Mill
2021 - The Impact of Missionaries, The Mill Gallery
2021 - Breakout Residency w/ Adrianne Semmens, The Mill Adelaide
2020 - Critical Path Commission w/ Adrianne Semmens
2020 - Writer in Residence, The Mill Adelaide
2018 - Poet in Residence, City of Adelaide
prizes
2024 – finalist: Bowness Photography Prize, MAPh
2024 – finalist: CLIP prize, Perth Centre for Photography
2023 – finalist: Olive Cotton Award w/ Dave Laslett (lead artist) and Aunty Tina Flanagan
commissions
2025 - ‘1967’ text and transcription, National Portrait Gallery
2024 - ‘this push and pull between us’, witness/ tree project
2022/23 - OSCA Public art commission w/ Aunty Margaret Brodie
2020 - Critical Path Commission w/ Adrianne Semmens
academic roles
ARC Research Fellow, Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame (2022- )
Sessional Lecturer, South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia (2024- )
Research and transcription, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Science, Flinders University (2021-2022)
Course coordinator, Lecturer & Tutor, Aboriginal Pathway Program, University of South Australia (2018-2021)
Tutor, Foundation Studies, University of South Australia (2019-2021)
Lecturer & Tutor, School of Arts & Humanities, ACU (2017-2020)
creative roles
Desert Voices Project - teaching artist (2024)
The Kaurna Womens Art Collective - co-founder & artist w/ Aunty Margaret Brodie (2021-2023), with Bonny Brodie leading the collective from 2024
witness/ tree project - co-founder & artist w/ Adrianne Semmens(2023-2024)
UNRAVEL - co-founder & artist w/ Adrianne Semmens (2020-2022)
qualifications
BA Fine Art, UNSW Art & Design
BA Arts and Philosophy w/ Honours, UNSW/ANU
PhD in process, Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame
Jennifer Eadie is a writer and artist-researcher who lives & works across Kaurna, Adnyamathanha and Goolarabooloo Millibinyarri country. Her site-responsive and collaborative practice assembles text and still/moving image as a means of interrogating the censorship of body and place, in an Australian context. She is a ARC Research Fellow/PhD in the Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame and sessional lecturer in the South Australian School of Art.
contact:
ndjeadie@gmail.com
record:
poetry / creative
Eadie, J (2025) ‘everything is happening at once’, Plumwood Mountain Journal, vol 21:1
Eadie, J (2024) ‘The Impact of Missionaries’ , Westerly Magazine, vol 69:1
Eadie J and The Kaurna Womens Art Collective (2023) ‘Footprints’, Tarnanthi exhibition installation and text Eadie, J (2022) ‘Love Letter Backwards’ in accompanying texts: UNRAVEL exhibition publication
Eadie, J et al., (2021) ‘A Collaboration with Looking Glass’ in FUMA Gallery exhibition: Looking Glass, Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce (organised by TarraWarra Museum of Art and Ikon Gallery with curator Hetti Perkins)
Eadie, J (2021) ‘Against Segregation’ in CORDITE Poetry Review, vol 101
Eadie, J (2020) 'It Turns Back Upon Itself' in CORDITE Poetry Review, vol 97
Eadie, J & Semmens, A (2020) 'LEAVE ONLY YOUR FOOTPRINTS: a dialogue exploring identity and connection to Country that is enabled through embodied movement', Critical Path Digital Interchange Festival
journal articles / book chapters
Eadie J & Muecke S (2025) ‘ Reclaiming Country: Australian Aboriginal Walking Trails as Method ‘ in Casper Bruun Jensen (ed), Southern Anthropocenes, Routledge: NY.
Muecke et al (2025) ‘Saltfish: ecologies of creative processes’ in Anna Hickey-Moody et al., (eds), New Materialist Affirmations: Creative Research Interventions in Methods and Practice, Edinburgh University Press:UK
Eadie J & Muecke S (2024) ‘Seaside Concepts: Walking and Writing the Lurujarri Trail’ in Felicity Picken & Emma Waterton (eds), Shores, Surfaces and Depths: Oceanic Cultures, Routledge: NY.
Muecke et al.,(2022) ‘Saltfish’, Sydney Review of Books
Eadie J (2021) ‘So Many Birds/One River: A fictocritical response to the Port-Yarta Puulti River, Kaurna Country’, TEXT Journal
Muecke, S & Eadie, J (2020) 'Ways of Life: Knowledge Transfer and Aboriginal Heritage Trails' Educational Philosophy and Theory, 53:8
Eadie J (2014) ‘The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age’ Modern Fiction Studies 60:1
books
2025 -
2022 -
exhibitions & residencies
2024 – memory line, wash house gallery, Sauerbier House
2023/24 – witness/tree project, Nexus Arts
2024 – NEOTERICA(text) - Adelaide Festival
2023 – Nexus Studio Residency w/ Adrianne Semmens
2023 - Footprints w/ The Kaurna Womens Art Collective & Dave Laslett - Tarnanthi Festival
2023 - Sauerbier House Cultural Exchange Residency
2023 - LARTELARE artist talk & exhibition w/ The Kaurna Womens Arts Collective, Vitalstatistix
2023 - LARTELARE residency w/ The Kaurna Womens Arts Collective, Vitalstatistix
2022 - Deep Dive Artist Residency, POP Gallery Port Adelaide
2022 – Following the River, SALA residency and exhibition
2022 - BREW Writer in Residence, Pandanus, NT 2022 – UNRAVEL exhibition & performance w/ Adrianne Semmens, The Mill
2021 - The Impact of Missionaries, The Mill Gallery
2021 - Breakout Residency w/ Adrianne Semmens, The Mill Adelaide
2020 - Critical Path Commission w/ Adrianne Semmens
2020 - Writer in Residence, The Mill Adelaide
2018 - Poet in Residence, City of Adelaide
prizes
2024 – finalist: Bowness Photography Prize, MAPh
2024 – finalist: CLIP prize, Perth Centre for Photography
2023 – finalist: Olive Cotton Award w/ Dave Laslett (lead artist) and Aunty Tina Flanagan
commissions
2025 - ‘1967’ text and transcription, National Portrait Gallery
2024 - ‘this push and pull between us’, witness/ tree project
2022/23 - OSCA Public art commission w/ Aunty Margaret Brodie
2020 - Critical Path Commission w/ Adrianne Semmens
academic roles
ARC Research Fellow, Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame (2022- )
Sessional Lecturer, South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia (2024- )
Research and transcription, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Science, Flinders University (2021-2022)
Course coordinator, Lecturer & Tutor, Aboriginal Pathway Program, University of South Australia (2018-2021)
Tutor, Foundation Studies, University of South Australia (2019-2021)
Lecturer & Tutor, School of Arts & Humanities, ACU (2017-2020)
creative roles
Desert Voices Project - teaching artist (2024)
The Kaurna Womens Art Collective - co-founder & artist w/ Aunty Margaret Brodie (2021-2023), with Bonny Brodie leading the collective from 2024
witness/ tree project - co-founder & artist w/ Adrianne Semmens(2023-2024)
UNRAVEL - co-founder & artist w/ Adrianne Semmens (2020-2022)
qualifications
BA Fine Art, UNSW Art & Design
BA Arts and Philosophy w/ Honours, UNSW/ANU
PhD in process, Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame